Submission Problems,

Yupp, got myself one of these as well. Submitted the game, the messages said everything was fine. Doesn't show up.

Not much I can do about that. Only change in my settings are mods and only those that are available on this site. Could that do it?

Noticed that when I have a game and the United Planets gives me the vote for dispersing technologies, when I click DONE the game locks up.

Have you checked the stickied thread on 1.13 UP tech issue?

PJ: can you please zip up the save games and e-mail them to me? I need both the .sav file and the folder with the same name.

[email protected]

AmulekBird: Do you have one from before the dip, too? It could be a failure to properly condense the graph, or maybe didn't restore from a save game correctly.  See above instructions to PJ.

WalkerintheMist: the database is showing that you have a game submitted on the 25th.  There are spaces between your name, whereas all your previous submissions do not have spaces.  I've fixed it in the database, but you'll want to delete the name with spaces from your list so that you don't accidently submit with that name again.

Thanks Cari,

Ran into a CTD when launching a Battleship for the first time. No waypoints saved. Do you want the save and debugg.err? The autosave should be within one or two turns of the crash as I have the autosave on 2 turns.

Hmm, on a personal note I've been seeing significantly more CTDs as I up the difficulty. All my CTDs have been on above Normal difficulty.
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WalkerintheMist: The rallypoint problem would only be with Altarian Prophecy games.  Yeah, I'd like to see the save game and debug.err.   Just let me know what version they're from.  If it's from 1.13, I'll need both the .sav file and the folder with the same name.  If it's from the Altarian Prophecy beta (1.49b) there's only a .sav file.  My e-mail is [email protected]

Ok, sent. If there any problems I'll be back on computer within a couple of hours.

I'm very unimpressed peoples.
I bought your little game as my 50th birthday present.

I've played for several weeks.

I'm supposed to dredge through a thread like this to understand why my neutral civilization can't have a decent military. Yes I have spent time looking.
I have hundreds of games.
BUT I cannot work this one out.

Where is the thread with a clear explanation of how to actually play the game. Or am I just supposed to hack GCTech.TECH till I get the game I thought I bought.

And YES that is far from the only bug - and how long have you had to fix it all. The game crashes and locks-up regularly. On beginner settings ya get slaughtered.
Techs I swap never appear. I buy ships and just lose the money.

This mess of a thread is useless to any beginner. And there is nowhere to find a summary of the results of it all. Oh and plz don't suggest Javascout - who does deserve a medal BUT tech tree ain't current - so WHERE is it ???

I do understand that this game is different - that is why I bought it. But I didn't expect the level of support to be THIS different.
Don't you people visit other game sites ????

But you have my vote for the most impenetrable forums ever. My vote for the most impossible game to learn - once patched. My vote for my biggest mistake and sadness in 50 years. A photo of a grey haired man crying in his beard should be attached ( REALLY !!! )

You have stolen my money - I hope you enjoy it.

So at least you got a lil feedback from one not-to-ever-return SUCKER. I should NOT have bothered. It HURTS ................

ZZZZYeti

Simply sounds like you haven't bothered reading the manual to be quite honest, it's not exactly taxing, and my father of 57 can play the game with little trouble. The lack of military would most likely be due to you not building sufficient quantities and having the support structure to pay for it?

Hundreds of games? I dread to imagine which, 100 Atari Emulation greats one of them? and you think StarDock are one of the worst companies out there? Obviously you're not familiar with the "hundreds" of developers/publishers out there that offer no support to games at all after release? 4Head, JoWood, Atari, and Activision just to mention ones that immediately spring to mind

And seeing as the game won Stretegy Game of the Year, you're very much outvoted, I'd say it was just you

Just a little feedback of my own, hope you don't mind! Oh and bye!

Ummm, well I guess I would have to explain thoroughly to get any respect. I am TOO OLD to ever have used a console. I started playing online in 1974. I was until recently a designer working with the Unreal Warfare engine - but I am under NDA. So I find the comment about ATARI totally absurd - you wish ! I run a few of their support sites.

I have played grognard games since very young. I have a huge measured IQ and 18 years of post-graduate work in Computer programming. I specialise in gaming encryption software - so sorry.
I have done Medicine and Veterinary Science also.
So maybe I should be a good candidate for this game.
I currently play Heroes, Homeworld 2, Korsun Pocket etc.

I have read all this thread - the manuals, Javascout and so on - and the tech tree is still VERY UNCLEAR - as many others in this thread have also.
In game I have the largest society, have researched almost the entire tree, 30 or so battleships but cannot make dreadnoughts ( I'm neutral right ?? ) etc
Your explanation of this is hidden in this huge thread - obviously everyone expects to read this thread before starting the game.

So where in the manual does it say I have to swap technologies to acquire the necessary? OR maybe you would like to point me towards the current tech tree - WHERE IS IT?

Or maybe instead of insult you would like to respond with some answers ??

You deserve my contempt for your previous response and you HAVE IT!

etc etc etc

WHY SHOULD I BOTHER - we are getting nowhere - I got a gold in Railroad Tycoon tonight; won two rounds of UT2003; and advanced Poland in my Med. Total War campaign -I'm happy

!!! THANKS SO VERY MUCH !!!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
- that's the ONLY FUN I ever got out of you or YOUR GAME.

Goodbye
;D

Oh and you forgot to wish me HAPPY BIRTHDAY - I'm 50 today. You have made it SO NICE !!!
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ZZZZYeti,

To my knowledge, the two previous posts are the first two you've ever made. You began your posts with flaming and immediately identified yourself as a troll.

If you wanted answers to your questions, you could have asked politely, like the rest of the community does. Instead, you choose to berate and villify a game and company that many of us here are very fond of, almost protective of.

The inability of Neutrals to gain access to Dreadnaught tech is a very well known bug and is documented in another stickied thread, which is only about 30 replies long. It is a Tech fix which was immediately released by Our Holy Lady of Software, CariElf. It will fix your problem, and if you have any questions on using the fix, asking politely will certainly give you a better response than saying things like:



Happy Birthday and congratulations on your success with those other games.

ZZZZYeti, I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience, but i have i (and others can help you).
http://files.galciv.org/mod_site_v2_002.htm
The above link should take you to a fix for the "neutral" tech problem.


I'm not sure, why. The only reason i can think of would be if you don't have the prerequisites.


I'm not sure i understand this problem, could you describe this in details ?


I know his site hasn't been updated to vers. 1.13, but to the best of my knowledge no changes have been made to the tech (except for the dreadnought/neutral bug).

I hope the above helps, if not please do post here again (but please do post in more a diplomatic way)

Happy birthday and happy gaming

ZZZZYeti:

I have really little respect for anyone who feels the need to refer to their high IQ and years of experience to prove that they wouldn't be having problems if the software in question wasn't riddled with bugs.  You lack credibility when you come on here and start flaming us like a teenager.  Did you even try e-mailing [email protected]?  If you actually want support rather than just being a jerk, I'll help you.  Frequent crashes in Gal Civ are often due to conflicts with video or sound drivers, or buggy codecs installed by other programs.

WooHoo......You go girl! Sweeeeet!

I don't want to take away from Sirian's real accomplishments, but this bug was first posted on the forum by KitWarrior several months ago.

Here's something that escaped my notice until recently. I recently submitted a game where the Arceans had an intelligence level of "sub-normal" and all the other AI's were set to "beginner". When the submission screen came up it showed them all as having a rating of "beginner". Is this a bug or am I just missing something? Has anybody else noticed anything like that? Unfortunately I no longer have the savegame files, but a similar situation may present itself at the end of the current game I have going.

I reported this in another threat - don't remember which - and it was confirmed by another player. CariElf said she would look into it. There did not appear to be any consequences, just a cosmetic bug.

Actually, my previous report is above from this forum.

CariElf said:

Well, I am sorry to hear that you feel that you are too old to enjoy learning how to play a new game that is not like any other that you may have played. Research has shown that the brain remains agile as long as it is learning. Take the challange and enjoy the ride. Explore the options, try something daring. It is just a game, so it doesn't matter if you lose.

By the way, I am 62 and I don't consider myself old at all. Neither do my kids.

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In the Metaverse, we're all ageless! Dennis, drop in the Fellowship thread and share with us some of your thoughts about strategies.

Ok, thanks for the confirmation dgperry.

Y'know, I really like this game!

I can't wait for the expansion pack.

Well, how about we get back to what this thread is supposed to be about, BUGS. Now if someone can tell me if this is abug or not, a search of the messages does not result in any similar problems.
In the last 4 weeks the game has locked tight at one screen and one screen only, the end of your Galactic Council. You vote, and the issue does not seem to have a bearing on it, as soon as you click the Done button, the game stops, yes STOPS. All processes have 0 usage, handles, threads or memory.
I have saved the save games in a zip format and can email if needed. Other issues with this problem is: Amount of turns, tech research, military might, influence, trade or other headings do not affect the problem. I have restarted 3 games and have had it lock up at different times but at the same screen.
System Info:
DX 9b
P4 2gig w/Intel Mobo
1 gig pc 133 ram
Creative Audigy Plat, the first one
WD 40 gig ATA100 HD 7200 rpm 4mb cache
Toshiba SD-M1612 DVD-CDROM
No other devices are enabled, nor ports.
Running DesktopX, WindowBlinds 3.4, Mcafee Antivirus, MBM5.

Please any help would be appreciated, I do enjoy the game.

Glenn A Nicholson

~SDC~

It looks like you might have just upgraded to ver 1.13

There is a fix you need to install. Ummm...let me go find the link to the fix.

BRB

Okay: http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?id=117859&BID=GF&page=1

Post #3 will give you the files you need.
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Has anoyne else notice that when you have traded for trade goods and that civilaziton gets destroyed you lose those? This used to not happen